by Lui Umano | May 25, 2014 | May 2014
The Earth’s geologic history is the most fascinating story I can imagine. This rock in space we call home has been around for some four and a half billion years, and the amazing forces that have molded and shaped it continuously during that span of time repeat...
by Lui Umano | May 17, 2014 | May 2014
Sometime in the mid-to-late 1200s a small community of Ancestral Puebloan people moved into a secluded canyon on the extreme northeastern slope of what would one day come to be called Cedar Mesa in what is now southeastern Utah. Their scar in the...
by Lui Umano | May 11, 2014 | May 2014
Some twenty-nine million years ago two tectonic plates, the North American and the Pacific, scraped against each other. The result was the creation of a geologic feature known as a rift valley, a separation of the Earth’s crust caused by faulting. Across...
by Lui Umano | May 4, 2014 | May 2014
As we head into the Desert Southwest for a glorious month on the Colorado Plateau, I wanted to remind myself of the beauty of home and the joy that is spring in the Southern Appalachians. Middle Prong of Little River flows out of the rugged section of Great...
